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A Newspaper of Character
FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918.
VOL. 25. NO. 13G.
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
DAILY
AUSTRIAN NEWSPAPERS
WANT PEACE TALK WITH
AMERICA TO CONTINUE
IN BE HEAR NG HOAR
FACKER IS ASKED SOME VITAL
AM) SHARP H ESTIONS RE
GARDLNG PAY AM) 1IOIRN.
HE FAVORS 10-H01 lY
Declares Ten Hours of Work Do Not
I'lidcrmiiie Man's Health (ir Shorien
Hi Life, but Is W illiiii; to Concede
8-1 lour Day if Adopted tJcmrully.
Chicago, Feb. IS. J. Ogden Armour,
president of Armour & Co. took tin:
witness stand here today in
inghouse wuc invototlKiiUon
Altschuler.
the pack
"uy Judge
Armour was questioned by Frank '.
Walsh, attorney for the employes, who
are seeking higher wages.
"You an: aware that a number of
your employes have Joined the labor
unions, are you not., Air. Armour?" ask
ed Attorney Walsh.
"1 believe they have," replied tin.
packer. He added in answer to other
questions that he
tho demands of the
of the arbitration,
the, vice-presidents
was familiar with
men and the nature
lie gave a list if
of Armour & Co.;
the
and
plants operated by the company,
the names of the general superin
tendents at each pia.it. lie had visited
all of the plants, but did not do so reg
ularly, he slid. twoen ir,ouu and Pi,
000 are working at the Chicago plant
at pre.se nt.
As to Production Cost
"Are you familiar with production
costs in your plants'.'" asked Mr. Walsh
"In a general way, but I could riot
give you exact figures offhand," Mr.
Armour answered.
can you say what your total pay
roll and the per cent of labor cost is
to the total production cost'.'" asked tht
employes' attorney.
"i would have to consult tho com
pany's book."
"Haves you any objection to equal
pay for men and women doing tin
same class and volume of work?"
"1 understand that that is done now
If it is not done, 1 see no obj-otion to
its being done."
"Where employes work in three shift
of eight hours, have you any objection
to giving tliem twenty minutes for
luncheon with pay?"
"1 don t suppose 1 have. If it was
generally followed by everybody, wt
would not object."
Khr Question Is Asked.
"i.-i it true that if the waives of all
your workmen were doubled it would
increase the price of meat only sixty
live one-hundredths of a cent a pound?'
"I couldn t tell that without some
figuring."
"Is it not true that if you doubled
the washes paid your men in 191G, you
Would still earn 6 1-2 per cent on your
capital stock?"
"I could not answer that now, but it
would be unfair to figure on a basis
of capital stock alone."
Tho witness was askel to prepare
statement on the subject and submit
it later to Judge Alschuler.
Armour workmen, the testimony de-
developed, work on a basis of the ten-
hour day and are paid by the hourly
rate. Witness said the subject of the
eight-hour dav had been presented to
him bv Mr. O'llearu; he didn't remem
ber just when.
"Don't you think your employes
should be allowed their liberty on
Christmas and the Fourth of July'i
asked Mr. Walsh.
"I do."
"Do vou think double pay would be
(Continued on page 2)
STREETS OF KIEV
AND ODESSA ARE
Petrograd, Feb. 9 (Saturday). In a
battle at Odessa on Monday, between
the bolshevik! and the moderates, hun
dreds were killed. The city was bom
barded by warships.
Petrograd, Feb. 9 (Saturday). Kiev
one of the principal cities of tho Uk
raine, was captured Friday by tho bol
shevikl after sanguinary lighting. The
streets were tilled with dead and
wounded.
While tho fighting was at the height
Thursday, the city waa bombarded by
bolshevlst aviators.
The casualties at Kiev are estimated
at 4,000 killed and 7,000 wounded.
Polish troops have defeated the bol
shevikl at Bobruisk, eight-five milt:
southeast of Minsk. Other roles an
advancing toward Smolensk.
Rumanians control the Akkerman dis
trlct of Bessarabia and are threatening
Od jssa.
ijislgn Krylenko, bolshevik! com
nuuider-in-chlef, has decided to come to
Fetrograd to raise an army of 100 000
bolshevikl, which he will command per
sonally in operations against Uie Cos
sack army of Generul Lcxieff.
LID WITH DEAD
Oil
Stockholm, Fob. 18. The German war measures
against Russia today, the Social Demokraten states.
first objective is the seizure of Rsthouia and Livonia,
dares.
London, Feb. 18. A serious schism has been created be
tween Germain' and Austria-Hungary by the termination of
the armistice between the central powers and Russia and re
newal of a state of war with
hagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company.
The Austrian press is warning Germany against reopen
ing of hostilities, in which Austria
he semi-official Fremdenblatt
resse is quoted as pointing out
onger borders upon Russia, anu
pelled to resume warfare- The
says the newspaper, is to protect
the monarchy and the Ukraine.
Die Zeitun?, which has intimate connection with the Aus-
tro-Hungarian foreign office, is
is saying that Count Czerrnn,
tinue to negotiate with the West.
"For our monarchy," it says,
shed and for one of our antagonists it has virtually not begun.
Millions of thinking people now
resident H llson-
The article concludes with
spond interprets as being plainly addressed to Germany, reading:
"From our side, the predisposition to positive negotia
tion has never been interrupted, and it is to be hoped that ne
gotiations will not be interrupted from the other side."
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WATSON OF INDIANA WANTS TO
ABROGATE EXTRA CONTKOL
OF .UFA IKS AS WAR KNDS.
Washington. Feb. IS. Provisions of
the (Herman bill giving President Wil
son wide powers to reorganize Uie war
branches of the government were de
nounced as "unconstitutional" and "au
tocratic" by Senator Watson of Indiana
today in the course of a speech in sup
port of the senate drift of the admin
istration's railroad bills.
"The Overman bill," declared Senator
Watson, "confers upon the president
unheard of powers, many of which, to
my mind, are unjustifiable, but the rep
rehensible feature of that measure, In
my judgment, is the one that provides
that this autocratic authority shall con
tinue for one year after the termination i
of the war. why this provision? W hy
ek in that measure, as in the railroad
bill, to perpetuate power asked to pros
ecute the war into the days when there
hall be no war? They are not con
stitutional, they are not :n harmony
with the spirit of our institutions.
Wants Tower to End Willi War.
"I am willing to confer upon the
iresident," the Indiana senator con
tinued, "nil the powers necessary to
win this war; I have voted for several
What
Ship
OPPOS
POWE
President
Carpenters'
Washington. Feb. 18. President Wil-I
son telegraphed William i... ituicneson,
general president of the Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners, that ho can see
nothing to be gained by conferring witn
him personally about the strike of ship
yard carpenters until they have accept
ed and acted upon the principle that in
the present circumstances of the nation
no body of men has the right to strike
until every other method of adjustment
has been tried to the limit
"If you do not act upon this princi
ple," the president's message said, "you
ire undoubtedly giving aid and comfort
to the enemy, whatever may be your
own conscious purpose."
In Keply to Appeal.
The president's message was sent in
reply to one received Saturday from
Hutcheson, that he bad been unable to
reach an understanding with officials
of the shipping board, but felt that If
s"iven an opportunity to lay the matter
before the president, a solution could
be arrived at quickly. It was made
public last night, ns follows:
"William Jj. Hutcheson,
"(ieneral President t'nited Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America, New York:
"I have received your telegram of
yesterday and am very glad to note the
expression of your desire, as a patri
otic citizen, to assist in carrying on the
work by which we are trying to save
America and men everywhere who work
and are free. Taking advantage of that
assurance, I feel it to be my duty to
call your attention to the fact that tho
.strike of the carpenters in tho Bhlp
yarda is la marked and painful contrast
AlSER d sagree
0 SOM
PEOPLE OF RUSSIA
begin
Their
it do
Russia, accordintr to the Copen
does not wish to participate.
is silent, but the Ncue Freie
that the Austrian monarchy no
is not, like Germany, com
only thing Austria might do,
the free connection between
reported by the correspondent
the foreign minister, can con
"our war is in the main fin-
point to Count Czernin and
a sentence which the corre
measures, the necessity of which I
doubted, because he stated that the au
thority sought was essential to the suc
cessful prosecution of this conflict; but
I am not yet convinced that in order
to win this war it is necessary to con
fer upon the president these tremen
dous powers for a period of peace oiig
after the conflict shall have ceased.
"To that end, let us firmly resolve
that with the proclamation of peace,
the president shall surrender all the
vast powers willingly conferred upon
hirn by an aroused people because of
the urgent necessities of war; that this
nation shall return to the kind of re
public foundrd by the revered fathers
of lh" I'nion."
Sees New Era In America,
Senator Watson approved the pro
vision in the railroad hill limiting gov
ernment control over the railruiuls to
eighteen months after the war.
In his opinion, Senator Watson said,
the war will mark a new era in railroad
management.
"I believe the old system of competi
tion is gone for ever; that the Sher
man anti-trust law so far as it affects
railroads will be repealed, that anti
(moling laws directed at railroad opera
tions will be abrogated and a plan will
be adopted which will give the govern
ment practical control of American rail
roads without the weakness and inef
ficiency incident to government owner
ship."
Adoption of the standard of compen
sation provided in the bill was also
urged by Senator Watson.
"It may be necessary," he added, "to
carry out this vast project for the pres
ident to raise rates, and he should be
give nthe power to assume the initla-
j tive in this undertaking.'
Told
Chief
to the action of labor in other trades
and places.
No
"Ships aro
Deadlier Blow.
absolutely necessary
for
the winning of this war.
.strike a deadlier blow at
No one can
the safety of
the nation and of Its forces on the other
side than interfering with or by ob
structing the shipbuilding program.
"All the other unions engared in thus
indispensable work have agreed to abide
by the decisions of the shipbuilding wage
adjustment board. That boara lias dealt
fairly and liberally with all who have
resorted to it. I must say to you very
frankly that it is your duty to leave to
it the solution of your present differ
ences with your employers and to ad
vir.e the men whom you lepresent to
return to work pending the decision.
"No body of men have the moral
right, in the present circumstances of
the nation, to strike until every method
of adjustment litis been tried to the
limit. If you do not act upon this prin
ciplo you aro undoubtedly giving aid
and comfort to the enemy, whatever
may be your conscious purpose.
Co-operal or Obstruct.
"I do not see that anything will be
gained by my seeing you personally
until you have accepted and acted upon
that principle. It is the duty of the
government to see that the best pos
sible conditions of labor are maintained
as it is also its duty to see to it that
there is no lawless and conscienceless
profiteering, and that duty the govern
ment has accepted and will perform.
Will you co-operato or will you ob
struct?
"WOODROW WILSON."
WEATHER FORECAST.
For Ardmore anil Vicinity: Tonight,
cloudy; warmer. Tuesday, colder.
Oklahoma: Cloudy and warmer to
night; Tuesday, unsettled ami redder.
Hast Texas: Tonight, cloudy ; wann
er. Tuesday, unsettled; warmer in
southwestern portion.
West Texas: Tonight, fair; warmer.
Tuesday, l'.iir; eolder except in south-
(astern iortiuri; cold wave in the I'
handle, with temperature 10 to 10
grcts Wednesday morning.
I .oral Temperature.
Maximum temperatures yesterday,
decrees; minimum this morning, -hi.
E
FOR HEW PREMIER
DISMISSAL OF (JEN.
STIRS WKAT1I OF
SUCTION OF TDK.
ROBERTSON
CERTAIN'
PRESS.
London, Feb. IS. The idea that the
public is attempting to dictate to the
government what their military policy
shall be or who shall be employed to
carry it out, is deprecated by The Dally
Chronicle in an editorial on lie- situa
tion brought about by the announce
ment tout General Robertson had been
retired as chief of the imperial staff.
"The task is one for the responsible
ministers," it says, "and while it is open
to parliament to rhange the ministers
no circumstances have been disclosed in
the present instance which warrant
such an upheaval."
,The Times, remarking that the pre
mier's recent spfcch in the house of
commons failed to carry complete con
sictlon, rays the result has boon a
storm of exaggeration and political in
trigue over what seems to have been a
most natural and common sense ar
langement It declares that a full ex
planation of events obviously in over
due. Says Matter Mishandled.
"The government seems to have done
Its best to mishandle an overwhelming
case," The Times adds. "Whatever may
have been going on behind the scenes,
their alternate bursts of confidence and
reticence have given the impression or
sheer indecision, it is almost as sur
prising as it is satisfactory that the
allies' military organization has emerged
with its principles unimpaired."
News fjf (leneral Robertson's removal.
The Morning Post says, will he roeeiv-d
with consternation by the public and
the tinny. Jt eulntM7.os General Robert
son, not only as the greatest British
soldier of his day. but as the. highest
military genius the war thus far has
produced.
Says Robertson Was Dismissed.
Declaring that It is evident that Gen
eral Robertson has been dismissed and
that those who dismissed him find it
inconvenient to confess the truth, The
Post says that parliament will insist on
knowing why the distinguished soldier
is "treated so scurvily." It continues:
Ir the summary dismissal of Gen
eral Robertson were not enough to shat
ter our confidence in Premier Noyd
George and the government, the cir
cumstances of the dismissal wodld do
it. The need of tin' hour is a premier
who. while knowing where to forbear
interference with what he does not un
derstand, will Know also him to tniow
his whole weight into the prosecution of
the war."
James W. Lowther. the speaker of the
house of commons and 'leneral James
C. Smuts (former Boer general) are men
tioned by The Post as the type of men
titled to head the government.
. . Alleges Officials Are Cneasy.
According to The Daily News, the
government is becoming anxious over
its position. I's supporters all over
the country were telegraphed on Sun
day a request that they attend the ses
sion of the bouse of commons on Mon
day and Tuesday for important army
debates, says this newspaper.
The question of the government's sta
bility is mentioned by other newspapers
but mostly viCi xpressious of hope
and expectation that parliament will
support the ministers.
It still seems probable that Premier
I.loyd George will make his promised
statement on Tuesday, although it is
regarded as possible tliit circumstances
may impel hirn to speak today, not
withstanding the cold from which he
is suffering.
UW KILLED IN
L(
London. Feb. IS. The casualties in
Sunday night's air raid were sixteen
killed and thirty-seven injured, it was
ollit'ially announcd this afternoon.
The following official report was is
sued today.
"Iist night's air raid appears to have
been carried out by six or seven enemy
airplanes, of which only one penetrated
into London.
"The first raider passed the Isle of
Thanet about 9:45 p. m.. and proceeded
up tho Thames estuary into lindon
crossing the capita! from southeast to
northwest. Bombs were dropped in
rious districts between 10:40 and 10:55
o'clock.
"The remaining raiders which at
tempted to reach Ixmdon from the
northeast across Essex or from the east
alone tho line of the River Thames
were all turned back."
AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE
1HGUEST EEET IN WORLD
Chicago, Feb. 18. American soldiers
have tho biggest feet of any soldiers in
history, according to Allen !. Albert of
tli! war camp committee service. But
they also have the greatest chest meas
ure, the largest hat bands and the wid
est Btep, he said. "Our soldier is a far
better typo than those of our enemies
or our allies," declared Mr. Albert.
BRITONS CALL
10 BY AIR
RAID OF ENEMY
SHOWS
TEETH TO TEUTON
l'KO( J.AMATION IS DI'CLAK T!ON
OF WAR ON GERMANY, BEE
LIN IWIT.K RECUVRES.
WHY PEQPLE ARE ANGRY
Kaiser Took Slice of Their Country
and Bought So-Called Peace With
I krainc, and This After Plivlging
Friendship and Independence for the
Nation.
London, Feb. IS. "Nothing less than
a declaration of war upon (hriuany
and Austria," the nations which "re
leased Poland from the yoke of czar
doin," is the way the Berlin Lok.il An
zeiger characterizes a recently pub
hshod proclamation by the Polish gov
ernment council, whicn, like the Polish
ministry, was recently ti'porteil to have
resigned, according to an Kxchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen.
The Polish proclamation which called
out this comment declared that the
central powers, after having guaran
teed the independence of Poland and
promised the Polish states its friend
ship, help and co-operation, neverthe
less refus"d Poland representation at
the Brest Bitovsk peace conference and
bought peace with the Vkraine by hand
ing over a province completely Polis1
Without consulting Poland regarding it.
The Polish council protests earneslb
again; t the partition. It requests tin
people of Poland to maintain unity and
to give the council support in its posi
tion. The summary of the proclama
tion thus given wa.s telegraphed to the
Berlin l.oka.i Anzeiger from Warsaw.
JUSTICE IS BEAD
CMAKI.ES M TIUCKI.K. MKMHEK
OF STATE MTRKMK COI KT,
1 ASSES AWAY.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 2S. Charles M
Tliaekcr, associate justice of the Ml
prime court of OUlahnun. died sudden
ly Sunday morning in Wesley hospital
of acute ga.ntti-J. He had leen ill
only two days.
Judge Thacker had long born promi
nent in the making of historv for Okla
homa, coining to the state from I ex is
in ll-s:) and locating in Mangutn, Creer
County, then a eountj in Texas. Hi
was mayor of Mangum, county attor
now countv iudgo and member of the
P rritori.il senate and of uie board of
regents for territorial normal schools
Ho was also edtor of the Mangum Star
for lever il years.
Appointed y ('nice.
In 1911! Judge Thacker waa appointed
a member of the supremo court com
mission under the admin isl ration of
Cov. I.ee Cruce and in BUS he was
appointed an associate justice of tin
supreme court, tilling out the unex
nircd term of Judge 0. A. Brown, who
died. This appointment was made by
Cov. R. L. Williams. In PJ1H he was
elected to a six -year term of the Mil
nreme runt which would have expired
in BI21.
Judge Thacki r wa.s born in Virginia
and was fifty-two years old. He wa:
admitted to practice law in Texas. Ik
was married here Oct. 22, P.Mtl, to Mis?
Oelzora Phillips anil one child. Virginia
Thacker Phillips, was born to them
The body will be taken to the eapilol
tomorrow and will lie in state in the
supreme courtroom under an honorary
iMiard. until Tuesday afternoon when
funeral services wiil he held. The Rev
W. II. B. I'reh will conduct the serv
ices.
Pallbearers Are Named.
K. O. McAdams, president of the
State Bar Association, announced last
nicrht the appointment of the following
as honorary nallhearers: John II. Bur
ford, Oklahoma City; M. E. Roiiscr
Muskogee; Robert II. loofburough
Beaver: T. P. Clay. Mangum; Frank
Matthe.vs. Alius; lion F. Williams,
Norman: Samuel C. Me.ssinglc, Lor
dell: E. R. Ciarrett. Mangum. and A
Titus, Cherokee.
Harry M. Thacker, lawyer of Man
gum. and Thomas Thacker, physician
.if Dallas, bolh brothers of. Judge
Thacker and the only near relativi
will attend the funeral, as will Judgi
Nelson Phillips, chief justice of. the
supreme court ot Texas, una orotn
of Mrs. Thacker.
AIRPLANE I OR OIL KI SINESS
Tulsa, Okla,, Feb. Hi An abstract on
some Texas oil lands was delivered to
Joe Rogers here today by Joe. Barties
of Dewey, Okla., who came in an air
plane. The machine was piloted uy
William Parker and the trip from Dew
ey, a distance of fifty miles, was made
in thirty-six minutes. .This Is said
mark the first practical use of the air
plane in the Kansas-Oklahoma oil fields
Barties and Parker expect to retu
by air.
RISSIAN (iRAND DIKES
AND (JRAND Dl ( MESSES
MAKE PLEA FOR NICK
Petrograd, Friday, Feb. IS. A
number of grand dukes and grand
duchesses of the former regime
have addressed a plea to the
bolshevist government urging
that the conditions under which
the former imperial tamily Is be
ing kept at Tobolsk, Siberia, be
alleviated, perhaps permitting tho
former emperor and his family
to go to England or France.
In tho plea, they are reported
to have announced that the im
perial family is ready to renounce
all rights and pretensions to tho
throne.
KlT.EIt OF AI STKIA
DECORATES OFI ICIM.S
1 OR "PEACE" WORK
Amsterdam, pen. 17. The of
lici.il gazettes in Vienna and Bu
lapest publish a letter from Km
peror Charles expressing the wish
to create closer relationship be
tween the army and Coutu Czer
nin. the imperial foreign minister,
"who, finding his support in the
iitny's proficiency has laid the
lirst foundation of a general
peace."
Count Czernin is apiKtinted mi
honorary major general in recog
nition of his .services. Kuipcrnr
Charles also has decorated several
diplomat." conin cted with the
"peace" negotiations at Brest I.I-tovsk.
MANUFACTURERS
ARE CONDEMNED tl
OFFICIAL REPORT
All. IKE TO INCREASE WAt.l
IN KEEPIMi WITH I.IYlNti
COST HERTS COl'NTKY.
;s
Don't Complain
vance in Cost
Not ;ie Cp
of 100 Per Cent Ad
of Matrials, But Will
to IjUior one-si teen (li
of So-Called Inherited Eights,
Washington, FYb. IS. Failure of
lanu'acturi-rs to increase wages in
ping with the advance in the cost
living "may be the weakness of our
industrial structure," according to
toger W. Bahson, special agent of the
mploymont service of the department
labor, whose views gained during a
cent trip through the vest are set
eth today in an employment service
ulletin.
Although starting Ins trip with tin
ea of educating the workers to the j
"ls of the present situation, Mr. Bab
n says he returned with the idea
.' the manufacturers, especially those
some localities, peed fully as much
missionary work n.s do workers.
"The labor difficulty at present is one
Improper distribution rather than
hortage. The complaints of manufac
turers, I found, -have arisen not so
much from their difficulty in obtaining
tlor, but in their difficulty in obtain-
it at the prices which the manufac
turers desire to pay. My principal dif
ficulty was m convincing manufacturers
tho increase in the cost of living to
igo earners and in the reasonableness
f advancing wages.
The mariLfacturers v-ho tire not com-
dainiug about paying advances of one
itimirco per cent or more for materials
which they must use, are strenuously
bj'tiiig to paying a fraction of this ad-
va
ance in wages.
In many ways, manufacturers are
more liberal than wage earners. They
heerfully pay heavy taxes, give boun
tifully to the Reil Cross and similar
anizations, are willing to work In
W.L'hingtoii for (1 a year and permit
their wives to knit from morning to
ight; but there in one thing which
they will not do give up one-sixteenth
f the so-called 'inherited rights' of the
mploying class."
Mr. Babsou also is in charge of the
industrial relations division of the committee-
on public information.
I Elixir Endorses Wilson.
Washington, Feb. IS.- -American la
r today endorses President Wilson's
war aims and is eager to do its share
toward winning the war. In a deelara
tion issued by the executive council
the American Federation of I.bor
it the close of a seven-day session
ero I.ust night, the American worker
i declined to be loyal and will do hi,
share if he Is given a decent place to
live, industrial justice, and protection
igaiust conditions that take all his
wages lor a bare living.
BOYS II TRENCHES
(By the Associated Prcssl.
With the American Amu in France,
Sunday, Feb. 17. General Pershing has
completed a two-day inspection of the
American sector northv-est i f Toul. In
a "tin hat" with a gas mask swung
over his chest at the iilcrt position,
the American commander walked
through all the first line trenches,
iplashirig through the mud and slip
ping on the ice. He dropped down into
the dugouts and visited batteries busy
hurling "iron rations" at the enemy.
In all places, tho general asked in-
numerable questions, especially of the
men, with regard to food, what they
were and how they liked conditions. All
except one cook answered that they
were perfectly satisfied with everything.
Tho cook said he would like more
"green stuff." The general next ap
peared In a dugout Ui a town which
has been riddled by shells. The colonel
wan not there at the time and tho com
mander called for all trench and other
orders and all papers. lie sat down
and read through every one of them.
Throughout the inspection tour, Gen
eral Pershing limped a little, his ankle
having boon injure! slightly a few
days ago.
COTTON EXCHANGE TO CLOSE.
New York Feb. IS. The cotton ex
change here will be closed Feb. 23, the
, Saturday after Washington's birthday
PERSHING SURPRISES
SHIP CARPENTERS
E
i STRIKE AT END AS RESI I.T OF
! PRESIDENT W ILSON'S REIU KE
TO I'NION I.ABOK CHIEF.
YARDS BE BUS! TODAY
American Executive Told Carpenters'
IVesident That If He Did Not YVLsh
to dive Aid and Comfort to Enemy
Mo would Direct Men tu Return to
Their Jobs.
i:i i.i.ETiN p. m.
New York, Feb. IS. A hitch in the
settlement of the Eastern shipyards
strike situation developed here todav
when John Rico, general organizer of
the Cuited Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners, announced that Rrookh n
yard had refused to reemploy twelve
carpenters who struck this morning
without knotting that an understands g
was under way between the govern
ment and the brother hood. I'nle.- .;
these men veil1 allowed to return. Mr.
Rice said, the entire .situation would be
re-opened.
New York, lib. IS. The strike by
carpenters in the Atlantic seaboard
shipyards engaged on government con
tracts, is over, John Rice, national or
ganizer of the I'liited Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners, said today.
Several thousar. 1 men who still are
idle are expected to be at work tomor
row morning.
Within twenty minutes after Presi
dent Wilson's telegram to William L.
Ilutcheon had been received last night,
energetic steps wire taken by union
officers to notify by telephone and
telegraph all the 8.000 workers to obey
tin- wishes of the president.
About S.Ono of the strikers returned
to work this morning. Mr. Rice esti
mated, "l.'nion men are going back be-
alise they have every confidence that
President Wilson will adjust this mat
ter to their satisfaction," be said.
In yards of Philadelphia, Baltimore.
Jersey City, Elizabcthport, Newark and
New York about 6.000 carpenters quit
work tlds morning, Mr. luce announced.
because they were unaware of the fact
that William L. Tlutcbeson, president
of the brotherhood, had responded to
resident Wilson's letter of last night
by announcing he would endeavor to
Influence the strikers to resume work
pending settlement of their grievances
by the wage adjustment board.
Many of these 6.000 men later were
Informed of the situation and returned
to the yards, Mr. Rice said, and during
the day every effort would be made to
get in touch with the remainder.
WILSON'S KEKl'KK (iETS ACTION
HiiUheson tJuUkly Orders Resumption
of Work on All Vessels.
Washington, Fell. IB. Shipping board
officials were, confident today that
President Wilson's intervention in the
strike of carpenters in eastern ship
yards hail had its desired effect, and
that the nvii would go back to work,
lending settlement of their grievances
by the wage adjustment board.
The president took a hand In the sit
uation last night and Issued a sharp
rebuke to William L. Hutcheson, presi
dent of the Cuited Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners, declaring if this
union leader did not wish to give aid
and comfort to the enemy he would di
rect the men to return to their jobs
pending settlement. The president de
clined to see Hutcheson until he bad
done so.
This message brought prompt action
from Hutcheson, and local union offi
cials In affected districts were notified
bv Hutcheson last night to :isk the men
under their
work today.
jurisdiction to return to
$15-A-WEEK TELEPHONE
OPERATOR POSES AS
CONFIDANT OF KING
New York, Fen. 18. Edmund Rous
selot, the JlTi-a-week telephone opera
tor, who, while masquerading as "Count
Edmund Rousselot di Castillot," alleged
secret agent of the king of Spain, ap
plied for a loan of $."i0.000,000 from J.
P. Morgan & Co., will be arraigned In
court here tomorrow. Rousselot was
indicted under the espionage act, one
of the charges being that he forged a
government permit to visit all warships
in tlie harbor.
Further investigation of his meteorle
career revealed tnat ne mane tne ue-
luaintanco of an heiress, having been
introduced to her by a P.ritish naval of
ficer who believed in his bogus cre
dentials and Westchester County seals,
and that he paid marked attention to
the young women until he was arrested
for impersonating u French diplomat.
The federal authorities said that
some of tho man's friends continued to
belie'-e in him after his arrest, and
one Jotn.'in from whom he had bor
rowed $10,000 only a few days ago,
pleaded with them to release him.
MAJORITY SOCIALIST PARTY
OF GERMANY DE (TARES
NO SYMPATHY WITH KL'SS
Stockholm, Feb. IS. German major
ity Socialists are disassociated from any
connection or sympathy with the Rus
sian bolshevik! in an article in tho So
cialist organ Vorwaerts ot Berlin by
Otto Uraun. He charges that the Rus
sian delegates at Brest Litovsk did not
intend to utilize the truce to arrange
peace, but rather to extend the revolu
tion to the territory ot tho central
powers.
German Socialists, soys Ib-rr Brnun,
sharply condemn tho violent methods
of the bolshevikl. "We must draw a
broad line betwepn ourselves and the
bolshevikl," he adds,
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